Reviews

Was so excited going into this... and what a bland serving it is. It's not the worst movie in the world but it's not good. With illusions and ambition towards Fincher's best, it so clearly demonstrates what is, and is not, Fincher. Maybe Fincher could have done it better, but the plot is so bland, it's doubtful. True to the current tread to disavow ambiguity, the good are good, and the bad are bad... millennials love this, no thinking required. Hampered by bad direction and odd editing, the story jerks and stops it's way though a tale that ultimately is devoid of interest and has little point. The actors are fine, and Leto is good and reasonably creepy, but plods along with a pair of cops that do just about everything that would never actually transpire in a real investigation. It ends after plodding scene to scene for two hours with a conclusion that is neither satisfying nor as interesting as it believes. They even alluded to Seven at one point when Leto references Maleks family in a disturbing way, leading me to think we may end up with a head wrapped in kale... but no, just another pointless tidbit, like the opening scenes which also make little sense and even out of character for the killer, if it's really him. I originally rated it 5 for just not being a great movie, but the more I thought about what it wanted to be, and the talent within, and the total blandness of the effort, I became more annoyed and dropped it to a 4. Fincher pretensions in a lifeless inert offering for our current delicate sensibilities.

Remember those meetings you had to attend, because it's part of your job, and they ran too long with people bringing up and debating endlessly things you could not care less about, and you just can't wait for it to be over? When you are finally released, you assess 10% was useful and the rest of the 4.5 hrs was an interminable time drain?

That is this movie....

"Fly on the wall is interesting" and not having an opinion or agenda jammed down your throat is, perhaps, somewhat refreshing... but good lord... endless scenes of bored people in meeting rooms punctuated by the occasional "character" fighting a parking ticket or lesbian wedding does not juice up a interminable Monday "all hands" without end.

Respect to the idea... and style... but Editors win academy awards for a reason, and this long days journey into the night, needs one badly.

Maybe they got tired of doing it?

Decided to make a season so bad nobody would ever return? Seasons 1-3 are great and season 4 is a long boring slog with a bunch of characters you don't care about after the writers decided to go "woke."

Many have already said the aforementioned in many reviews here.... but I am a completist and struggling through, while really disliking it. Reason I write this is to warn others... it gets worse. After enduring 7 tortured episodes to date, episode 8 is actually not bad, although they choose to get rid of the only interesting characters.... so I am thinking, maybe a strong finish? NO!

Episode 9 takes any interest built in episode 8, and throws it out the window with some weird black and white flashback for the entire episode, with new characters we couldn't care less about. It's almost as if they said, "how can we lose anybody remaining.... let's do an unconnected, all B&W hour with a new story". What's next? Maybe an entire episode in claymation spoken in Italian, with subtitles?

Think the creators are done and want to make sure the former audience never asks for more....